By David Colmans
The stunning images of incredible damage from the April super storms that raked across the Southern states presented an up close and personal reality about the power of super cells and tornados.
The feeling I get after watching this devastation is exactly the way I felt feel after the death and destruction hurricanes bring to coastal areas. There is the sudden impact of the events with the damage as it occurs, followed by the discovery of those who were injured or worse.
We are now in what is the “long tail” of the aftermath. The clean up, recovery and rebuilding is on. Another aspect of these horrible events is the phase where we think about what we did right and what we should have done.
To watch the death toll rise from 83 before sunrise the morning after the storms hit to 173 before 8 a.m. just makes me wonder about how close we all can be to the same fate. Later it went much higher.